Sentinel lymph node procedure leads to upstaging of patients with resectable colon cancer: results of the Swiss prospective, multicenter study sentinel lymph node procedure in colon cancer.

摘要

The SLN procedure for colon cancer has good identification and accuracy rates, which further improve with increasing experience. Most importantly, the SLN procedure results in upstaging of >15% of node-negative patients. The potential advantage of performing the SLN procedure appears to be particularly important in these patients because they may potentially benefit from adjuvant therapy.